Quotes About Aging

One's reward for marching through the decades is a gradual process of erasure.

When you're young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past." She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. "And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

I mean that love is all around us," Alain says. "But the older we get, the more confusing it becomes. The more times we've been hurt, the harder it is to see love right in front of us, or to accept love into our hearts and truly believe in it. And if you cannot accept love, you can never really feel it.

You know—we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "My God, my God—" I said to myself, "it's the Children's Crusade."

La muerte era algo que te llegaba al final, tras haber vivido unas decenas de años y haber ido envejeciendo poco a poco. Un largo camino blanco que se extendía en línea recta hasta desaparecer en la distancia en medio de una luz cegadora. Hay quien llama a esto "la nada", pero nadie la ha visto. La muerte era eso.

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.

The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old.

Few know how to be old.

There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

el huesped septuagenario del número 12, investido alternativamente de gloria y de ignominia, permanecía estancado al costado de su hija -en la inalterable serenidad del atardecer de su existencia- como un guiñapo de hospital en la orilla de la cloaca.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.

So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.

Men should have squint lines from looking at the horizon," the old librarian had said, "not just from reading in dim light.

What the hell do doctors know about exercise? Most of them know zero. You gotta push elderly people to failure like anybody else. Then the body responds.

There is no fountain for youth. What you put in your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog.

Stop growing and you're in the casket.

Sixty feels exactly like 50, with aching feet and more forgetfulness.... But your inside person doesn't age. Your inside person is soul, is heart, in the eternal now, the ageless, the old, the young, all the ages you've ever been.

I am all the ages I've ever been.

You know when I need to die? When I'm done living. When I can't walk, can't eat, can't see, when I'm a crotchety old bastard, mad at the world. Then I can die.

To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

A great sadness welled up in Magnus at the sight of him. It was human to age and die, and Jem stood outside that humanity now, outside the light that burned so brightly and so briefly. It was cold outside that light and fire. No one had greater cause to know that cold than Magnus did.

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect.